DEVELOPING WORKS
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visible
This bold developing work will premiere October 12-16, 2011 at Harlem Stage.
Public conversation between visible creators
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar & Nora Chipaumire
Sunday, September 25
2-3:30pm
Held Lecture Hall
Barnard Hall, 3rd floor
Barnard College
Street address: 3009 Broadway @ W. 117th St.
Take 1 train to 116th St
visible - Week One of the Final Creative Residency at Barnard
By Katie Stricker
visible is back in action! On Wednesday co-artistic director Nora Chipaumire, and dancers Marguerite, Judith, and Catherine, reunited and thrust their bodies into motion for the first day of their final creative residency for Visible. For the next two weeks the cast will be working with artistic director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Nora Chipaumire at Barnard College to solidify the work’s material and rehearse. This residency will culminate in the completion of Visible for its world premier at Harlem Stages October 12-15. The work is the final product of an ongoing collaboration between Urban Bush Women and artists from Jamaica, Holland, Guadalupe, Japan, Burkina Faso, Missouri, and Zimbabwe, which started as a workshop at Harlem Stages in November 2010 and continued in Kansas City in May 2011.
To read the full blog and learn more about the creative process visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ubwbrooklyn.
Jawole interviewed by Sylvia Maria Gross of Kansas City's KCUR
Choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar was born and raised in Kansas City. But it was in New York City that she founded Urban Bush Women, a dance company known for its exuberant and political mash-ups of everything from modern dance to African to hip hop.
Click here to read the full article and listen to the interview.
Diversity produces 'America: Now and Here' dance concept
by Libby Hanssen of the Kansas City Star
*NEW PHOTOS* from the Kansas City residency in May.
Photos by Mike Strong
Visible: Day 1 - November 15, 2010
By: Simone Sobers
What do you get when you put natives of Jamaica, Holland, Guadalupe, Japan, Burkina-Faso, Missouri, Romania, and Zimbabwe ... In one room? No really, what do you get? It's not a riddle. Or is it? This question is the purpose and interest of investigation that brought this group of people together. Did I mention that they are all artists?
Read all of the blogs from the November 2010 creative residency at Harlem Stage on Facebook.
NEW WORKS
These are recent new works created by Jawole and the Company.
Zollar: Uncensored (2010)
Zollar: Uncensored is an evocative journey of Jawole's creative history from 1984 to the present. She chose sections of works that speak to her early investigations into eroticism, sensuality and the reclaiming of the broken parts of the self after trauma. Created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Company, this retrospective is a collage of excerpts that connects to the area of Jawole's work that she eventually abandoned or that was diminished when the full brunt of the Jesse Helms era of censorship frightened presenters and funders. The worst impact of all was that Jawole began to censor herself. Ultimately Zollar: Uncensored is a tribute to all of the women who have been Urban Bush Women.
Choreography: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Guest Artists: Beverly Botsford, percussionist; Somi, vocalist and composer; Pyeng Threadgill, vocalist and composer
Text: "We Come Here for the Dreams" written by Jewelle Gomez and "Haikus #28, #29, #79, #102 and #107 written by Kalamu ya Salaam
Music: "Body and Soul" by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton & Johnny Green performed by David Murray Quartet; "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy; "An Orbit of Skirts: and "Shake What Your Mama Gave Ya" music and lyrics by Pyeng Threadgill; "Wind Chant" and "Let Me" music and lyrics by Somi
Costume Designers: Matthew Hemesath and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Lighting: Susan Hamburger
Funding / Rehearsal Support. The rehearsal of this 25th anniversary retrospective was made possible in part by subsidized rehearsal space at CPR - Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, NY. It was also rehearsed at New 42nd Street Studios. The creation of this work was supported, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA).
Photo credits (top to bottom): photo by Julieta Cervantes; photo by Mike Strong; photo by Sylvia Maria Gross for KCUR; photos by Mike Strong (slideshow photos); photo by Vaughn David Browne; photo by Yi-Chun Wu
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